1983 · David H Schroeder · Platformer

Dino Eggs

Playing a time traveller, "Time Master Tim," the player's objective is to collect dinosaur eggs and rescue hatchling dinosaurs while avoiding snakes ("proto-snakes"), gigantic spiders ("proto-spiders"), flying creatures ("proto-pedes"), and the dinosaurs' mother (or "Dino Mom").

Released: 1983
Platforms: Apple II Commodore 64 Commodore C64/128/MAX MS-DOS
Genres: Platformer
Developers: David H Schroeder
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action Science fiction
Country: United States
Languages: English

About

Dino Eggs is an Apple II platform game designed by David H. Schroeder and published by Micro Fun in 1983. It was ported to the Commodore 64 by Leonard Bertoni and the IBM PC as a self-booting disk. Dino Eggs is Schroeder's second published game, after Crisis Mountain.

Keywords

dinosaurs

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Softline stated that Dino Eggs had the same "unmistakable style" as David Schroeder's Crisis Mountain. The magazine called it "a rich game [with] excruciating pleasures", and concluded that Dino Eggs "is just a thumpingly good game and deserves to be a big hit". Ahoy! stated that Dino Eggs is, despite its "pretty tired and familiar" genre, "well-dressed and eager to please" with "first-rate action and a touch of humor".

Legacy

An independently produced remake by Eric Ferrot, Dino Legs, saw a limited release in 2011. Subsequently, Ferrot and original Dino Eggs author David Schroeder collaborated on a full-featured revival of the game entitled Dino Eggs: Rebirth. This version adds new types of boulders, fires, eggs, baby dinos, as well as puzzles, achievements, and an extended story in which Time Master Tim plays alongside his daughter Tamara. The macOS version of Dino Eggs: Rebirth only support 32-bit macOS. The latest macOS version to support Dino Eggs: Rebirth is macOS Mojave